Scientific American Magazine Vol 154 Issue 2

Scientific American Magazine

Volume 154, Issue 2

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Features

Death and Co

Unexplained Accidents, Asleep at the Wheel, Carbon Monoxide (CO) Responsible, How to Avoid Dangerous Concentrations of the Gas

Lawrence A. Clousing

Aluminum's Future

The Next Fifty Years of Aluminum: In the Light of Yesterday's Progress and Tomorrow's Research Possibilities

W. S. McArdle

A Rival of the Vacuum Tube

The Electron Multiplier, Bombarded Surfaces Become Electron Emitters, Uses in Photo-Electricity and Television, May Open New Fields

Vladimir K. Zworykin

When Dust Goes Up in Smoke

A Vital Problem in Many Industries, Dust Explosion Control Explained, Fatalities Reduced, New Industries—New Factors

David J. Price

Section Slicer

Aids Study of Wool, Hair, and Other Fibers

More About Nova Herculis

Transformation of a Stellar Atmosphere into an Expanding Nebula, Outer Layers Blown into Space, Energized by a Hot Neighboring Star

Henry Norris Russell

The Heel of the Conqueror

Ancient City Mound in Palestine, Evidences of Several Conquests Revealed to Excavators

Jotham Johnson

Patents and Industry, February 1936

Why Does the Atom Stick Together?

Family Rows Rare Within the Atom, Peculiar Behavior of Electric Forces Prevents Nucleus From Flying Apart, Scientists Seek Solution

Jean Harrington

Nobel Prize Radioactivators

High Voltage Research for Commercial Use

Andrew R. Boone

Departments

50 Years Ago in Scientific American, February 1936

To End San Francisco's Isolation

Our Point of View, February 1936

Bug Eat Bug, Wire Mileage and more

Books Selected by the Editors, February 1936